Review: Daddy Fartypants
As if dads weren’t embarrassing enough… here is a dad with a very windy attitude.
I saw the title and it made me laugh and then I saw the cover. The kid looking shifty at dad while dad is looking very happy with the green cloud he is releasing into the sky. XD So I had to read this one!
And OMG, I laughed so much! Meet Daddy Fartypants. A bear with a slight, well, OK, a big TOOTING problem. No matter where he is, no matter what he does… he let’s out rip-roaring, disgusting, green gas clouds of farts that blow everyone away in such hilarious ways that you will just lie on the floor laughing. He isn’t even embarrassed to do so, he just let’s it rip. At the yoga workshop, at the store, everywhere and everyone is screwed if they are near this big big farty bear. You don’t want to be near him. And maybe you know just maybe, he should find some help, because EWWW. I also have farty days, but never like this (thankfully because I just cannot imagine farting this badly every day and night). Now you think that this is the worst, a big farty bear with green toxic clouds, but the worst thing about the dad? Well, he just doesn’t say sorry. Yep. Never. He just points at someone or something. It is very rude. If you let out such big boys at least own up to it even if it is embarrassing. Everyone knows you did it anyway, come on. The first time people would believe you, but after a while… well you will probably get a very stinky reputation! I was hoping that the dad would be able to say sorry and would stop embarrassing his son (and maybe also stop gassing him because that poor lad just gets the most of the brunt of the stinkiness (like at that yoga workshop or when at the swing, how the boy is still alive, I wonder).
But what happens when dad meets another stinky bear? Well, from that point we see something fun happen and I was just so happy! He definitely needed that stinky wake-up call.
The art was absolutely tooting perfection. The farts are all green toxic clouds, but the best is the expressions of the various bears and animals who encounter such a fart, plus seeing all the things that happen (like hair flying by, flowers dying, a bird just flopping over, and more). The artist really captures the deadliness of the farts that this dad rips out.
All in all, HIGHLY recommend, this was a toot, a hoot, and a delightful farttastic book!